South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-15
Home Gossip.

vile Harper to keyser Tuesday.
AIR. Lewis EargeIt, of Paw Paw.
was in town Monday.
Dir. and Mrs w. Z. Baae, of Eur.
liDg,on, were 10 Romney Saturday.
DIR. Asa Wall, Of SprinR field. ,pen,
Saturday and Sunday 10 tbis place.
wo are glad to state that Mrs. Al.
verda lnsFseps recovering from her
recent attack Of illness.
The friends of Mrs. Virgins Daw.
son will be glad to learn tna. she 10
In . state Of convale sccncc.
AIR. and Mrs. X. q. Price, of Moore =
field. took the l 80 tain Wedncs-
day for New York.
Miss Eliza Hoge aud ne phew, Mas
yer Wilson Hoge OF Wheeling. are
Tho guests Of j. L. Vance.
Mrs. Dean and her four children
are boarding at Ashbrook near this
place.
Mrs. Harry Kidd, OF Missouri. 10
visiting her brother. Mr.. James II +.
Blue near South Branch Station.
Miss Lucy Recs, OF Rees' Tannery,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Robert
Washington.
Dir. Harry Fields paid q visi, to his
Old home, Hancock, Nd, Friday ar,l
Saturday.
Mrs. Florence French ard daugh.
Ter Mabel have re; urned from their
trip 10 Missouri.
AIR. Charley Wirgman and sister
Mise MOllie, visited their brother. Mr..
Dc. WirgInan. in Moorc6eld this week
Attention is directed to the notices
of Festivals 10 be held at Springfield
and Levels, which appear in this
issue.
Miss May Carter. who visited her
cousin SITS. John j. Inskeep last
week. returned - her home in Lou.
doun on Friday.
Mrs. Mary S. Spengler and son,
and Mr.. K. Ii. Sbearer and lady Of
Moorefield, were registered ut the
Keller House Tuesday.
Judge Armstrong was out taking n
buggy ride. Tuesday evening lie
has almost entirely recovered from
his ;eccnt illness.
Mr. II. A. Smith, who has been
working OH Rev. Hammond's louise
In this place for some time past re-
turned TO Key ser Friday.
Mr. James L. Nealis, OF Barnes
Mill, and Mr.. Jaspsr Buzzard. OF Jer'
sey Mountain, dropped in to see Us
Saturday:
BY the will OF the late Mrs. Robert
Given, who was o daughter Of the
late David Gibson, tho Secon Pres :
i,yterian Church U( Carlisle, Pa re-
ce:ves $4,000.
Levy term Of County Court, John
r. Vance, president. LID. Schnitbe
and II. ID. Powell, Associates, begins
the last Tuesday in this MONTH the
26ih .nsts1t.
Mrs. Laura Brown, daughter Of the
late John Vance Of Hardy codaty,
and her niece, Miss Carrie Van1iver
of Missouri. are visiting their cousins,
Mr.. aud Mrs. John Il, Vance.
Mrs. jos. Stun :, OF South Branch
Station, visited relatives up the river
last week; she was accompanied 10y
her nephew Mr.. - May berry, f. ON
Nsgerstoun, Md brother Of Mrs. Sal.
lilo A. Moorehead.
MIR Tommy Taylor, of Taylor, this
county. who.is too fiesby to- move e.
round much, finds pleassn' andprof-
stable emplo, ment in picking out
walnut kernels, frequently getting
two or three bushels ready iur mar
set in week. Truly where there is
~ill-to work-tbere is a way.
he prettisst piece Of tanning we
ever saw was o dressed deer kin
shown Us SATURDAY. 10y Mr.. o. s. High
IL 10 IA soft and flexible as chamois
skin. IL was tanned with the hair on
by Mr.. j. Will Parker, Of Mill Creek,
and will certainly make beautiful
mat.
Mr. viii Cavitt and sister with
their cousin, Miss Kate Cayii, ali
relatives OF Mrs. Robert Washington,
lett Der home at Ridge dale last week
Tor their home in Texas, expecting to
tdkB w Nub lsulhJ NhNtIbS Wv bHtH
ute and were accompanied that far
Ivy Miss Clara Cavitt, Mrs. Washing.
toms sister.
a suipe or woodcock Is a very rare
bird in this section, aud one seldom
seen by hunters this makes II the
more cmafkable that one has been
noticed several evenings lately, com,
ing 10 the bydrant At keller's stable
right in the heart OF town, to- get wa
ter. This shows how dry II is around
here.
The Shcpherdstown Register de-
Clares that a. eel was caught in the
river at that place thursday with us
body tightly wrapped around mus
kPt whch must have belonged II
some member of company Of CoBfed.
crate soldiers that were drowned by
the sinking Of ferryhoat there dur.
ing the war. This lays cut our ee
ana sucker story, published about
year ego, IN Ono shape.
DR.. Rsm!et V. Neale Of Keyser
dIcd oil yesterday morning.